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Sex, Drugs, Murder & Money Dismay Thailand's Buddhists
Tuesday, 16 July 2013, 11:19 am | Richard S. Ehrlich
Saffron-robed Buddhist monks' involvement in sex, drugs, murder and corruption is being increasingly exposed in Thailand, thanks to YouTube, resulting in shock, dismay, condemnation and criminal investigations. More >>
This is the Moment for Action on Climate Change
Tuesday, 16 July 2013, 11:02 am | Ben Jealous
President Obama kicked off the summer with a high-profile environmental speech at Georgetown University. He put forth a plan to limit carbon emissions for coal-fired power plants, and called for America to double renewable energy sources. More >>
Gordon Campbell on the SIS, and Auckland transport
Tuesday, 16 July 2013, 9:54 am | Gordon Campbell
At what point did the SIS lose the technological ability to fulfil its statutory duty, which is to detect and to counter threats to our domestic security? Surely, out of its annual budget, the SIS should have been setting aside the funds required ... More >>
Martin Doyle cartoon: Zimmerman's silence
Monday, 15 July 2013, 1:40 pm | Martin Doyle
One of the weaknesses of justice systems worldwide is the refusal of accused persons to speak before the jury about what happened. More >>
Trayvon Martin: A Jewish Response
Monday, 15 July 2013, 1:33 pm | Rabbi Michael Lerner
The acquittal by jury of Goerge Zimmerman who shot and murdered the unarmed black teenager Trayvon Martin was emblematic of the consistent racism and double standard used in the treatment of minority groups or those deemed “Other” in the U.S. ... More >>
Complaints About Complaints And Tech Liberty
Friday, 12 July 2013, 3:59 pm | ParliamentToday.co.nz
Tech Liberty spokesman Thomas Beagle returns to Parliament, this time to make a submission on the Telecommunications (Interception Capability and Security) Bill . More >>
Govt Tested As Controversial Bills Pass
Friday, 12 July 2013, 3:18 pm | ParliamentToday.co.nz
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Martin Doyle cartoon: Offer you can't refuse
Friday, 12 July 2013, 1:46 pm | Martin Doyle
SkyCity's "warning" to MPs ahead of their "conscience" vote on the Convention Centre deal changes the game from blackjack to blackmail. More >>
NetHui 2013:Quinn Norton’s chaotic, swirling internet vision
Friday, 12 July 2013, 11:33 am | Bill Bennett
Keynote speaker Quinn Norton connects what is happening in today’s society as a result of the internet revolution and what happened 400 or so years ago when the printing press arrived. More >>
NetHui 2013: GCSB bill too important to rush
Friday, 12 July 2013, 11:13 am | Bill Bennett
Legislation proposing to extend the powers of the Government Communications Security Bureau is too important to rush through Parliament without more debate. That’s the consensus of the panel discussing state surveillance and the GCSB at NetHui 2013. More >>
SkyCity Deal And Legal Highs Bill Provokes Anger
Thursday, 11 July 2013, 5:37 pm | ParliamentToday.co.nz
A bill legislating for a deal between the Government and SkyCity for the casino operator to build a National Convention Centre in exchange for an expansion of its gambling business has completed its first reading and been sent to select committee More >>
Surveillance To Privileges And SkyCity Deal Progresses
Thursday, 11 July 2013, 5:10 pm | ParliamentToday.co.nz
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Privileges Committee To Look At Security And Privacy Issues
Thursday, 11 July 2013, 2:21 pm | ParliamentToday.co.nz
The Privileges Committee is to look at the treatment and release of information from parliamentary security systems. More >>
Martin Doyle cartoon: Question of Conscience
Thursday, 11 July 2013, 2:17 pm | Martin Doyle
Today's "conscience vote" in parliament dishonours the word "conscience". More >>
ElBaradei’s Democracy:How Egypt’s Revolution Betrayed Itself
Thursday, 11 July 2013, 12:45 pm | Ramzy Baroud
“The revolution is dead. Long live the revolution,” wrote Eric Walberg, a Middle East political expert and author, shortly after the Egyptian military overthrew the country’s democratically elected President Mohammed Morsi on July 3. More >>
Empire of Paper: Frustrating Snowden’s Asylum Bid
Thursday, 11 July 2013, 12:36 pm | Binoy Kampmark
In its struggle against whistleblowers, the United States has exerted a variegated form of power, one that focuses on documents and an anaemic reading of the law. The international relations canon searches desperately for what that might be. More >>
The Revolution Shall be Cannibalised: Egypt and Government
Thursday, 11 July 2013, 12:34 pm | Binoy Kampmark
Too much food makes one obese, or at the very least flabby; too much revolution strips the credentials of those who want it, destroys the premises with which it is started, and undermine the cause. We have seen how rebellions cannibalise themselves. More >>
The Bomb in My Neighborhood: Syrian War Hits Beirut
Thursday, 11 July 2013, 12:28 pm | Franklin Lamb
This observer’s neighbors seemed to believe, especially over the past year, as most of us did, that the war in Syria would, in one form or another, spill into our neighborhood, Dahiyeh, the Hezbollah stronghold in south Beirut near the Shatila ... More >>
Rosalea Barker: 20 Feet from Reality: An eyewitness account
Thursday, 11 July 2013, 12:25 pm | Rosalea Barker
On Friday, July 12, the movie Fruitvale Station will open in Oakland and other “select” cities in the United States. If you follow their Twitter feed @fruitvalemovie you’ll get some idea of the buzz surrounding the film, which is based on the true story ... More >>
Citizens for Legitimate Government: 10 July 2013
Thursday, 11 July 2013, 11:59 am | Citizens for Legitimate Government
Edward Snowden could fly under a United Nations passport. I thought of this idea when I recalled the history of South Africa's Daily Dispatch editor and anti-apartheid activist, Donald Woods. Woods, who befriended Black Consciousness Movement founder ... More >>
Talk Nation Radio: Worker Ownership to Fix Broken Democracy
Thursday, 11 July 2013, 11:57 am | David Swanson
Gar Alperovitz discusses his new book, What Then Must We Do: Straight Talk About the Next American Revolution. Alperovitz points to long-term trends in wealth and income inequality, environmental destruction, civil liberties loss, incarceration ... More >>
INDIA: A time for reflection
Thursday, 11 July 2013, 11:54 am | Asian Human Rights Commission
"The significance of the protest was no longer defined by the number of people who take part, but by the issues it reflects," said Hong Kong Secretary for Transport and Housing Anthony Cheung Bing-Leung in a radio interview on the July 1 protests ... More >>
Review: Before Midnight, The Lone Ranger, This Is the End +
Thursday, 11 July 2013, 11:44 am | Funerals and Snakes
As is so often the case at this time of year (usually related to 48 Hours commitments) I am a little behind on my reviewing. This weekend I caught up on a lot the actual watching (although apologies to John Davies who sent me a screener of Remembrance ... More >>
Solari Update: Precious Metals Market Report with James Turk
Thursday, 11 July 2013, 11:38 am | Catherine Austin Fitts
Are you being rocked and rolled by the gold and silver markets? Then you will want to hear my interview this coming week with James Turk of Gold Money and Franklin Sanders of The Moneychanger about events in the precious metals market and what they ... More >>
Chevron Setback in Ecuador - Court Freezes $96M in Assets
Thursday, 11 July 2013, 11:34 am | The Chevron Pit
That Fourth of July party at Chevron’s headquarters must have been a real dud. Just before the holiday, news quietly surfaced in Latin America that $96 million in Chevron assets have been frozen in Ecuador at the behest of the indigenous and ... More >>
State Surveillance Discussion Panel at Nethui 2013 - Video
Thursday, 11 July 2013, 11:29 am | Alastair Thompson
Scoop editor Alastair Thompson covered the ‘State Surveillance of Online Communications’ panel at Nethui in Wellington on Wednesday, July 10. On the panel was former director of the Government Communications Security Bureau, Sir Bruce Ferguson, as well as ... More >>
Extended Hours Session Ends
Thursday, 11 July 2013, 11:23 am | ParliamentToday.co.nz
The third reading debate on the Taxation (Livestock Valuation, Assets Expenditure, and Remedial Matters) Bill was completed on a voice vote. More >>
Gordon Campbell on the ‘conscience’ vote on the SkyCity deal
Thursday, 11 July 2013, 10:56 am | Gordon Campbell
Gambling, for all the social evils that it can bring in its wake, is a legal activity enjoyed by many. And during night’s debate in Parliament on Te Ururoa Flavell’s Gambling Amendment Bill (a Bill that has been gutted at select committee of all its ... More >>
State Sector Overhaul Passes Into Law – Urgency Signalled
Thursday, 11 July 2013, 10:23 am | ParliamentToday.co.nz
The largest reform of state sector legislation in more than 20 years has passed into law with the support of Labour. More >>
Problem Gambling Compromise Necessary: Flavell
Wednesday, 10 July 2013, 9:10 pm | ParliamentToday.co.nz
The sponsor of the bill to address problem gambling says changes necessary to get it passed has reduced its impact, but it was still worth doing. More >>
Barbs Fly And More Questions On SkyCity
Wednesday, 10 July 2013, 5:14 pm | ParliamentToday.co.nz
Insults fly during the General Debate, which features contributions from Robertson, Joyce, Banks and Hipkins. More >>
Nothing To Report
Wednesday, 10 July 2013, 2:17 pm | ParliamentToday.co.nz
When Parliament resumed at 2pm, no documents were tabled and MPs moved straight to Question Time. More >>
Papua, Victim of a Conspiracy of Interests
Wednesday, 10 July 2013, 1:26 pm | Selpius Bobii - Front Pepera Papua Barat
West Papua is becoming increasingly well known overseas these days, but for the wrong reasons! Papua has for years been made a victim of a range of ‘conspiracies of interest’. These conspiracies are indeed thriving in Papua at the local, national ... More >>
Obama Channels Lord Cromwell: Statesmen Tamper with Packets
Wednesday, 10 July 2013, 11:29 am | John Stanton
Glenn Greenwald’s Snowden dossier concerning the American Leviathan’s practice of harvesting, storing and analyzing the information/conversations of its own and the world’s political, military, economic and cultural gate keepers is fascinating. More >>
Gang Patch Ban In Govt Buildings To Be Debated
Wednesday, 10 July 2013, 10:44 am | ParliamentToday.co.nz
A bill banning gang patches in Government buildings, including schools will be debated in Parliament this afternoon. More >>
Legal Aid Overhaul Passes Into Law
Tuesday, 9 July 2013, 10:01 pm | ParliamentToday.co.nz
The House rose at 10pm interrupting the third reading debate of the State Sector and Public Finance Reform Bill More >>
MPs Focus On Animal Testing
Tuesday, 9 July 2013, 5:07 pm | ParliamentToday.co.nz
Debate on a bill regulating psychoactive substances centred around animals being used to test their safety. More >>
Scrappy Start With Man Bans And Solid Energy
Tuesday, 9 July 2013, 4:57 pm | ParliamentToday.co.nz
A scrappy start to the week in Parliament as MPs trade jibes on man bans, while Clayton Cosgrove takes the Prime Minister to task over Solid Energy policy and comments. More >>
Martin Doyle cartoon: Christchurch predators
Tuesday, 9 July 2013, 3:25 pm | Martin Doyle
Christchurch desperately needs workers in the rebuild. Rack-rent landlords are a pox on this effort. More >>
Convention Centre Deal Bill Tabled
Tuesday, 9 July 2013, 2:09 pm | ParliamentToday.co.nz
A bill to legislate for the SkyCity Casino/Convention Centre deal was tabled when Parliament resumed at 2pm. More >>
David Shearer: Women-Only Electorates Idea Dumped
Tuesday, 9 July 2013, 12:17 pm | Hamish Cardwell
Labour leader David Shearer binned the idea of only women being allowed to stand in certain electorates at his weekly pre-caucus press conference at the Beehive today. More >>
Legal Highs And Animal Testing To Be Debated
Tuesday, 9 July 2013, 11:07 am | ParliamentToday.co.nz
MPs will debate the committee stage of Psychoactive Substances Bill when Parliament sits this afternoon. More >>
Citizens for Legitimate Government: 8 July 2013
Tuesday, 9 July 2013, 11:01 am | Citizens for Legitimate Government
Tokyo Electric Power Co. said Sunday that 600,000 becquerels per liter of tritium has been detected in groundwater at the crippled Fukushima No. 1 nuclear plant. The water, sampled Friday, came from an observation well about 6 meters west of the plant's ... More >>
Is Islam Compatible With Democracy?
Tuesday, 9 July 2013, 10:53 am | Alon Ben-Meir
The question raised by the ouster of Egypt’s President Morsi is whether Islam is compatible with democracy or any form of government that empowers the people and limits the power of leaders to hold merely representative offices with limited terms ... More >>
Here's How to Eliminate Most Corruption
Tuesday, 9 July 2013, 10:48 am | John Spritzler
Everybody--even corrupt people--say they are against corruption. But corruption is rampant nonetheless. How come? It's not because corrupt people, when caught, are not punished. China even uses the death penalty for corruption, as reported in today's ... More >>
Gordon Campbell on asset sales contortions, GCSB and Jay Z
Tuesday, 9 July 2013, 10:18 am | Gordon Campbell
Hope you’ve got it straight now. Treasury said $100 million from the Mighty River Power sales proceeds had been earmarked to prop up Solid Energy’s “recovery facilities” – although John Key said it hadn’t been, and that Labour’s Clayton Cosgrove ... More >>
Post-Cabinet Press Conference - 8 July 2013
Monday, 8 July 2013, 7:54 pm | The Scoop Team
John Key was joined at today's post-Cabinet press conference by Minister of State Services Jonathan Coleman, and Finance Minister Bill English. Topics discussed included the public sector, Solid Energy, and the GCSB legislation. More >>
Lyndon Hood: The One True Submission On The GCSB Bills
Monday, 8 July 2013, 1:20 pm | Lyndon Hood
I am the guy who was in charge of INTERPRETING THE LAW to decide whether or not it was legal for the GCSB to spy on New Zealanders... More >>
Egypt After the Coup: Is Obama Backing ElBaradei?
Monday, 8 July 2013, 11:25 am | Franklin Lamb
According to well-connected Washington sources, including a Congressional staffer whose job description includes following political events in Egypt, once it became evident that Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi might well be ousted by Egypt’s Supreme ... More >>
Hamas, Fatah & Squandered Years: When ‘Unity’ Loses Meaning
Monday, 8 July 2013, 11:21 am | Ramzy Baroud
When Hamas and Fatah representatives met in Gaza on June 04, there was little media fanfare. In fact, neither party expected much attention to their ‘unity talks’ aside from the occasional references to ‘national reconciliation’, ‘building ... More >>
Is Your Food Artificially Dyed?
Monday, 8 July 2013, 11:17 am | Martha Rosenberg
Many people know--or suspect--that farmed salmon is not naturally pink. They are right. Farmed salmon are dyed with the chemicals astaxanthin and canthaxanthin to produce an appealing, though unnatural, pink. In the wild, it is the crustaceans ... More >>
Socialism and Communism? NO! Democratic Revolution? Yes!
Monday, 8 July 2013, 11:12 am | John Spritzler
Are Socialism and Communism good ideas, which unfortunately have been stigmatized because bad people who don't really believe in these ideas do bad things in their name? Or are they truly bad ideas whose implementation by genuine followers leads ... More >>
Martin Doyle Cartoon: Party Party
Friday, 5 July 2013, 4:39 pm | Martin Doyle
Labour's proposal to set "quotas" based on gender [read biological] features really makes one wonder where it will all end. More >>
Adrian Maidment Cartoon: Man Ban
Friday, 5 July 2013, 4:19 pm | Adrian Maidment
Adrian Maidment Cartoon: Man Ban - David Shearer on merit. More >>
GCSB And The Fiordland Tunnel
Friday, 5 July 2013, 3:48 pm | ParliamentToday.co.nz
Submissions on proposed changes to spy laws - the Government Communications Security Bureau and Related Legislation Amendment Bill include one from Kim Dotcom. More >>
What have you done for me? | On Mighty River Power
Friday, 5 July 2013, 3:12 pm | Ben Brinkerhoff
A colleague of mine shared a funny story recently. He was sitting in his office the day Mighty River Power shares were floated. This colleague had a tempered (neither hot nor cold) view of IPOs, much like our own. He prefers the market to collect the ... More >>
Te Reo, Urgency And Kim Dotcom
Friday, 5 July 2013, 2:43 pm | ParliamentToday.co.nz
John Key faces more questions about his knowledge of Kim Dotcom prior to a raid on Mr Dotcom's house. More >>
Happy Independents Day – July 4, 2013
Friday, 5 July 2013, 11:34 am | Michael Collins
We’ve had many years of celebrating Independence so this year, let’s include a recognition of the outstanding tradition of political independents that provide so much to this country. Here are some key independents from my perspective. More >>
Auckland water-based design: the path of least resilience
Friday, 5 July 2013, 11:17 am | Jacquie Clarke
The bright purple waterway in an industrial creek of the upper Manukau Harbour is not a photoshop image. It’s the scene of an accidental dye spill. And though I’m currently living in France I’m wondering if the white bleached trunks of the mangroves ... More >>
Electric trains will significantly boost capacity
Friday, 5 July 2013, 11:03 am | Auckland Transport Blog
It’s become clear to me from comments and posts both on here and elsewhere that a lot of people really don’t understand just how difference our new electric trains will have on the capacity of the system. More >>
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